Mr. Hunter didn't really laugh at her, he just joked, and after laughing, he talked about the prizes of the competition: 3,000 for the first place, 1,000 for the second, and 500 for the third.

Compared to the salary level of less than 500 New Zealand dollars a month, the prize money for the champion is still relatively attractive.

"The champion is eligible to represent Cook Town in Christchurch to participate in the city-wide competition, and if he can win a prize in the city-wide competition, it will be great, not only will he have a prize money, but he will also have an award certificate signed by the Lord of Christchurch!"

Xu Yin is not interested in the certificate, she is more concerned about the bonus now.

Mr. Hunter twitched the corner of his mouth: "The champion of the city-wide competition was rewarded with five thousand last year, and I don't know how much this year, but I think it shouldn't be less than five thousand." In the Canterbury Zone, last year's prize for the winner was a handful of pure gold hand wool shear. ”

Wool shears of pure gold? That's pretty good!

Xu Yin suddenly had a head, if the long-term goal is to have a farm and pasture, then the short-term is pure gold wool shearing.

To qualify for the Canterbury Regional Competition, you have to be the Town Champion first and then the City Champion.

So, over the next few days, she began to prepare for the competition.

According to Mr. Hunt, in recent years, very few contestants have used traditional wool shears to participate in the competition, and almost all of them are electric faders, but the organizers stipulate that they are not allowed to change pushes in the middle of the race, otherwise it will be regarded as cheating.

Think about it, if the contestants prepare a bunch of electric faders in advance, they need to add fuel and change them, and the faders are hot and change, which is not so friendly to the poor contestants. After all, electric faders are not cheap to buy and maintain.

"Then I don't use electric faders, can I sign up with manual wool shears?" Xu Yin asked.

Mr. Hunt said: "There is no limit to this. The reason why everyone uses electric is because the manual cut is too slow. ”

I added a sentence in my heart: Who is like you, pick up the manual scissors and can cut the scissors all the time, not to mention the fast hand speed, but also like a perpetual motion machine.

Since she could use traditional wool shearing to compete, Xu Yin signed up.

After registering, start the scene simulation every day and practice the shearing hand speed, which is not only fast, but also fast and clean.

Cut every day, not for six hours a day.

Because according to Hunter, the regional competition has the longest time limit, and in order to select a truly powerful sheep shearing champion, the contestants have to shear for five or six hours in a row.

It can be seen that it is not so easy to obtain pure gold wool shear.

The problem is that there are so many sheep in Hunter Ranch for her to practice, all the sheep are like shaved inches, bare, even if they are willing to shear Xu Yin, if there is no hair, they will cut her, Xu Yin has no wool to shear, what else to shear if there is no hair!

Hunter's ranch is still a little smaller.

Xu Yin sighed in her heart.

If only there were other sheep farms nearby for her to practice.

Unfortunately, the nearest neighbor is not only two kilometers away, but also mainly dairy goats.

You can't just shave the hair of other people's dairy goats in order to practice, right?

Not to mention that the rancher wouldn't allow it, and she wasn't so mad.

Mrs. Hunt, sensing her eagerness to practise, smiled and said, "If you wish, you can go to my uncle's ranch to work part-time, and he has six hundred sheep, and he must not have finished shearing." ”

Xu Yin immediately thanked her.

Mrs. Hunter laughed and said, "I want to thank you, you have done three days' work in one day, much faster than expected, and those sheep are not noisy, and they are much easier to manage than before." You can go and come back on game day. ”

Xu Yin not only helped Mrs. Hunter's uncle, Mr. Aiwei, cut the remaining 400 heads of sheep, but also helped Mr. Aiwei's mother-in-law shear 7 or 800 sheep.

The part-time job was originally settled on a daily basis, but Xu Yin's efficiency was too high, and the amount of tasks that others needed to complete in three or four days was completed in one day, and it was quite easy to see.

Before the match day, Xu Yin was going back to Cook Town, and when Mr. Ivy settled her salary, he overpaid her twice.

Xu Yin took this little extra money, and the speed of the hand that was as fast as a ghost, and went back to Cook Town to participate in the sheep shearing competition.

After a month of training, she can now shear 20 sheep wool an hour, an average of one every three minutes, and the speed is very stable.

I'm afraid no one will believe this achievement.

George Sr. worked as a shearer for twenty years, and at the fastest time, he sheared fifteen in an hour.

That was his best result, and it was with that he finished fourth in Cook Town that year.

Although it didn't win the prize, it was only two less than the first place.

It was still an electric fader, and in the early years when I used traditional scissors to compete, it was fast to be able to cut five or six.

So it's hard to imagine how Sean managed to shear a sheep's wool in an average of three minutes? Wouldn't it be tiring to cut to the back?

Xu Yin felt that this speed could be faster.

She once read a news article in a small modern world, saying that there was a sheep shearing champion in Australia, and he sheared a sheep in less than 30 seconds.

And she needed three minutes.

However, the person used an electric hair pusher, which is much more advanced than the current electric hair pusher, which can push the hair continuously for five or six hours without heating, usually maintain it properly, and do not need to drip oil lubrication during use.

So, she wants to continue to improve her speed, and it's not hand speed that needs to be improved, but tools.

When the competition was over, she wondered if she could improve the existing electric faders.

Now, she takes to the field with traditional hand shears that have sheared more than 1,000 heads of wool.

Not to mention that the contestants were stunned, the judges almost laughed.

Got a traditional wool shear for the race? Isn't this here to be funny?

However, after a few days, they hurt the left side of their face and hurt their right face.

Xu Yin sheared 20 wool per hour with a stable record, beating invincible opponents all over Canterbury.

She won three titles in a row, winning first place in Cooktown, Christchurch and Canterbury.

Cooktown awarded her $3,000, and Christchurch's winner this year raised the prize to $8,000, for a total of $11,000 plus a handful of pure gold wool shears.

Let the shearers who can't do it with electric faders be both envious and ashamed.

It almost caused infighting among the organizers of the competition.

Some judges were unwilling to accept the high prize money and pure gold wool shear being taken away by a Chinese student, and asked to cancel Xu Yin's registration qualification;

However, some judges were more fair, believing that the competition schedule did not stipulate that foreign students were not allowed to participate in the sheep shearing competition.

In fact, there are international students from all districts participating in the competition, but in previous years, no international students stood out and won awards in the sheep shearing competition, so everyone did not think so.

This year, a dark horse suddenly appeared, winning one championship after another with strength, is it necessary to temporarily change the rules of the game? Will the competition still have credibility after that?

After many heated discussions, in the end, the champion of this year's competition was still awarded to Xu Yin.

But starting next year, the schedule may have to change. This is in case Xu Yin comes back to compete next year.

She is so young, if she comes to participate in the sheep shearing competition every year, what else will anyone else!

(End of chapter)